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Dickensian Typology
Dickens’s Hard Times takes place in Coketown, a coal mining town, focused on a small cluster of…
When You Unchain the Earth from the Sun
The case of Stefonknee Wolscht, the Canadian man who has decided that he is not simply a…
The God who Predestines
Paul begins the substance of the letter to the Ephesians by “blessing” God (1:3). As is well…
Rhetoric, Classical and Christian
In his The Invention of Christian Discourse, Vernon Robbins explains how and why Christian discourse and rhetoric…
Fathers and Sons in Ulysses
Joyce’s Ulysses has a pendulum structure. JH Raleigh (in an essay in Joyce’s Ulysses, 102) points out the contrast…
Retreat from Scripture
Marilynne Robinson is a theological anomaly. A self-confessed Calvinist, admirer of Calvin and Edwards, defender of original…
Church Made Theater
Jeanne Halgren Kilde opens her When Church Became Theatre with a comparison of New Haven’s First Church of…
First Links — 12.11.15
C. S. Lewis Was a Secret Government Agent Harry Lee Poe, Christianity Today
Refugees in Germany: A Firsthand Report
The following four letters regarding the situation of refugees in Germany were sent from a German observer…
Redeeming Time
Human beings are temporal creatures, but our experience of time isn’t merely of the relentless tick-tock of…
Holy Synagogue
In a NYT piece on a recent Galilean artifact, Isabel Kershner writes, “Experts have long believed that in…
Reformed Learning
In an essay on “Reformation” in her recent collection, The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson observes that Latin…
Speaking Matter
“The bare fact is,” says Rowan Williams (The Edge of Words), “that the material world speaks.” Material…
Announcing the Tradition Project
Here is an item about a new research project that will interest many First Things readers. As reported…
On Posner’s Wards
Richard Posner, a judge of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a New York Times op-ed co-authored…
